Install A6110A - 36GB HotPlug Ultra2 SCSI HH disk drive

[Joe Profaizer]

Need to install this new disk in an L1000. Can someone give me a step by step walkthrough?

Thanks,

..Joe

[Alex Richardson]

Hey Joe,

First thing you need to verify is that you have enough room in the internal L-Class drive bay. I would recommend going to the system, you will notice that the cover has an area to the right side that will swing open (this is were the CD-ROM/DVD should be). You should have at least one disk drive (2 really) already in the bays. You should also have slot inserts in the empty slots, which you will need to remove to insert the drive.

Now before I go on, you should make a backup, and all that jazz just in case of a system problem. Also to be extremely safe you can shutdown the system before inserting the disk (when the system restarts it will see the new disk and create the device files). But it is hot-swapable, right ;) so I will assume you know the risks and want to do this all online...

1) Run ioscan -fnkC disk mydisk, and find the drives currently on the system to take notes.
2) Insert the new disk in the available slot.
3) Run ioscan as root.
4) Once command completed run ioscan -fnkC disk again and verify the new disk. You will notice that there are no devices files to the new disk.
5) You can either run insf -e to create special files for everything on the system. Or to be a little smarter I would take a note of the hardware path, and then run insf -H $HardwarePath. And verify the creation of the /dev/dsk/c?t?d? and /dev/rdsk/c?t?d? files. Also re-run the ioscan -fnkC disk command to see that the new disk has the associated special files.
6) Now that you have the special files you can run pvcreate on the raw device, and then either add to an existing VG, or create a new VG on the disk.

Hope this helps...

Alex

[Alex Richardson]

Oops, Correction on 1)

Should be...

1) ioscan -fnkC disk > mydisk, this is to redirect the output of ioscan to a file called mydisk in your current directory for notes...

[Helen French]

Check this server user guide. This has all upgrade/install instructions with pictures. Check Installing additional components -> Installing disk drives:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/A5191-96018/A5191-96018.html